Tokyo 2020 Olympic organizers on Wednesday gave the green light for disaster-affected Fukushima Prefecture to host baseball and softball games. Three cities — Fukushima, Koriyama and Iwaki — are under consideration to stage part of the competition as the two sports return to the ...

Iwaki Mayor Toshio Shimizu on Friday presented a request to 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizers, seeking to host a baseball game and a softball game in the city in Fukushima Prefecture. Shimizu submitted the request to Yoshiro Mori, president of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic ...

Matsubaya, a retail and wholesale firm from the town of Namie near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, is trying to revitalize businesses that were based in the district, using Georgian wine. The firm, which evacuated to Tamura in central Fukushima Prefecture, ...

Machu Picchu, a World Heritage site in Peru, has been paired with Otama, a village in Fukushima Prefecture, in the first instance of the Inca citadel signing such an agreement. The two municipalities held a signing ceremony at the site Monday, with the attendance ...

This week’s featured article JIJI The government is set to lift at midnight Friday its evacuation order for the Fukushima Prefecture town of Naraha, most of which is located within 20 km of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. ...

In 30 to 40 years from now, a majority of the young people living in 12 radiation-contaminated municipalities in Fukushima do not plan to be living in the same place where they experienced the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, it has been learned. A ...

Four years have passed since the evacuees displaced by the Fukushima nuclear disaster moved into kasetsu (temporary housing). Many are unable to return home as their houses are still contaminated. At Kasetsu, by Masaharu Fujishima Translated by Rie Sakakibara 150 pages.YUgyosha, Poetry. In the ...

The Foreign Ministry and the Fukushima Prefectural Government held an event in Tokyo Thursday to promote foods and drinks produced in the northeastern prefecture. Dishes and alcoholic drinks made from Fukushima produce were served to guests, including ambassadors from various countries. Dancers from Spa ...

An earthquake with an intensity of 4 on the Japanese scale to 7 rattled the Hamadori area of eastern Fukushima Prefecture at 6:31 p.m. Saturday, the Meteorological Agency said. The earthquake measured 3 in the Nakadori district of Fukushima as well as in northern, ...

On the Brink, by Ryusho Kadota, Translated by Simon Varnam.Kurodahan Press, Nonfiction. The personal testimonials from “On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi” are riveting and heartbreaking. Compiled by Ryusho Kadota, each chapter recounts the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake ...